Defining a Just Cause - and What is Not.

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Nov 1, 2016 at 11:51

In the wake of the resurging fortunes ( and misfortunes) of Islam, from a non-Muslim perspective, being Muslim today must be one of the more confusing pursuits of modern life; for if we are to assume the internal machinations of what justifies the need to be jihadists in a foreign societal setting as a driving force amongst the several hundred million(s) of Muslims worldwide, why is Islam not the world's most dominant religious endeavor seeking peace world-wide. Instead, we see that fundamentalist Islam can only lead to continued unrest in the process of its replacement theology. There are several reasons, a number of which this observer is sure have been vetted over the years. But there seems to be little in the way of a general Muslim convocation that justifies Islam's quest for caliphate power. Indeed, as the learned writer of 'Jihad' has implicated, Islam is not innately cohesive; that it requires cooperation amongst its congregants of such diverse multicultural elements appears which have yet to come together; a situation that appears to be its greatest challenge in order to subsume to its tenets of submission.

Education is definitely one way to 'educate' a future generation into a compliant attitude by which the common goal becomes the common thought. It happened in England before the Muslim infusion; it happened in America as humanist secularization replaced the precept of freedom in the pursuit of liberty; it is happening now as the European western mindset attempts to eliminate the idea of a Middle East based upon the fundamental historical precepts that includes the Jewish identity, something the Egyptians of the Pharaohs' age never learned and paid dearly for.

So what will Islam do when it reaches its point of no return and finds that it cannot ever achieve the caliphate goal? In a battle for the religious mindset, education goes only so far before human intransigence settles in and no argument for complete submission will ever be achieved on a mortal human level. Only the Hebrew Holy Writ has ever achieved fulfillments of what the world searches for, but can never find. The suggestion that following the Hebrew Eternal Sovereign to find the secret of the Jewish resilience in the face of determined odds is made here; but wait, isn't that what Islam fights against the most? Is that not the total gist of the cause of jihad? Where is the justice of that?

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